What do we provide in the community of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth?

The following workshops, classes and activities all reclaim tenderness, and joyfully embody our values of: welcome, wonder, wisdom, friendship and legacy. 

Stovies and Stories

A meal is provided at a set place and time over several dates, weekly/fortnightly. There is time to have dinner together and then to read stories, play games, do activities like knit or colour in and homework. The intergenerational nature allows help with homework and reading and fun playing cards or board games. It is a bigger version of a family dinner and evening together.

Day Trips and Tea Stops

We plan outings to places of interest to help improve access to places that people will have fun going together. 

Mending and Munchies

A session to bring along clothes or garments that need some TLC. Learn to knit, sew, repair and alter clothes in good company with food and drink on the go. 

Hiking and Hampers

Picnics and the great outdoors. We arrange walks and hiking of varying degrees of difficulty and venture out as a group. 

Music and Memories

These sessions are provided by Siobhan in a range of care homes and carers centres. They involve singing and songwriting, both as a group and individually.

Language and Laughter

Spanish/French/Italian – These sessions provide the opportunity for anyone to try out or brush up on their language skills.

Chatter and Craft

Crafting sessions are planned and provided by Ash, she uses and array of different materials and provides access to activities that are original and satisfying.

Gardening and Grub(s)

These sessions are in the pipeline – if we have space we would provide sessions for planting flowers, learning about herbs and vegetables while tending things you have chosen to grow.

Songwriting and Singing

As described, run by Siobhan and for any group on any theme.

Heritage and Harmony

Sessions with a theme that explore our culture and history, gathering stories, finding poetry and songs and sharing them over supper in the evening.

Boxes and Bags

A chance to make either a bag or a box around some of the themes from our Tenderness days; friendship and legacy being the two main ones so far. An activity where we pull together small items, crafts or homemade gifts to create either a memory box or a gift.

Pictures and Popcorn

We run film nights in collaboration with Community Cinema. International films compliment our language lessons and National Theatre Plays bring accessibility to the best of language and performance.

Making Bread for Peace

Linking with Breezy Kelly in Ireland and back through time with mothers and others who opposed sending sons to war, we will gather on Monday evenings and make traditional Irish soda bread together.

In 1872 Julia Ward Howe called on other women to unite for Peace and wrote what came to be known as the ‘Mothers Day Proclamation’

An excerpt 

‘Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs’

If you are local and wish to do something that counteracts the horrors of war in our world today, please feel free to join us.